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Volume 111, Nº 3, September 2018

   

DOI: http://www.dx.doi.org/10.5935/abc.20180179

CASE REPORT

Partial Papillary Muscle Rupture after Myocardial Infarction and Early Severe Obstructive Bioprosthetic Valve Thrombosis: an Unusual Combination

Inês Silveira

Marta Oliveira

Catarina Gomes

Sofia Cabral

André Luz

Severo Torres



Figure 2 – Transoesophageal echocardiogram long axis view and 3D zoom on face view of the mitral valve presenting a significant thickening of mitral bioprosthetic cusps due to thrombotic material deposition, leading to severe obstruction of the prosthetic valve and a large mural thrombus covering the left atrial posteroseptal wall (pointed with an arrow). BPMV: Bioprosthetic Mitral Valve; LA: Left Atria; LV: Left Ventricle.





Keywords: Myocardial Infarction/complications; Thrombolytic Therapy; Atrioventricular Block/complications; Pacemaker Artificial; Heart Arrest; Heart Rupture.Post-Infarction; Bioprosthesis